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enUnconventional Warfare: Think Outside the G-Basehttps://smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/unconventional-warfare-think-outside-g-base
<span>Unconventional Warfare: Think Outside the G-Base</span>
<span><span>SWJED</span></span>
<span>Sat, 06/08/2019 - 11:36am</span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">The Green Berets are in danger of self-inflicted irrelevancy because of shortcomings in their training. Most current Unconventional Warfare (UW) training events take the Unconventional Warfare template from Robin Sage and simply impose it on other environments and threat situations. This trend has persisted despite the lack of modern UW examples that resemble Robin Sage. Green Berets should be considering other models of UW that may be more relevant today.</div>
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<span>The Hyper-Enabled Operator</span>
<span><span>SWJED</span></span>
<span>Thu, 06/06/2019 - 9:56am</span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Recent technological, socio-economic, and geopolitical trends, coupled with the reemergence of great power competition, complicate the future environment in which U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) must operate. SOF professionals will need to operate not only across traditional physical domains such as land, air, and sea but also in the virtual and cognitive domains. In particular, achieving cognitive dominance over adversaries will be essential to the success of future SOF missions.</div>
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<span>Operationalizing the Science of the Human Domain in Great Power Competition for Special Operations Forces</span>
<span><span>SWJED</span></span>
<span>Sun, 04/14/2019 - 7:31am</span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Special Operations Forces (SOF) must continue to build capability and capacity to scientifically understand, accurately interpret and effectively influence human behavior. It is the SOF operator who will be on the ground early, working with an indigenous populace, learning to understand a given situation in order to provide critical context to both civilian and military leadership. SOF must be able to navigate complex social systems and operate at a speed that creates critical decision space while ensuring their actions don’t make matters worse.</div>
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<span>The Niger Ambush and Leadership Accountability</span>
<span><span>SWJED</span></span>
<span>Mon, 12/17/2018 - 12:51pm</span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">This paper addresses my concerns about issues raised by news media publicity surrounding the 2017 ambush in Niger that killed four Americans - members of U.S. Special Operations Forces (USSOF) Team OUALLAM - and the perceived mishandling of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) investigation results by U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM).</div>
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<span>Special Forces at the Lion’s Tail: Managing Risk in the Use of Special Operations Forces and the Application of Law</span>
<span><span>SWJED</span></span>
<span>Tue, 10/30/2018 - 9:24am</span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">The 2017 NSS allows undue risk. A parsing of the NSS strategy toward Africa helps make the point: the NSS defers to ends and means and leaves ways unclear. The Lykke model of military strategy (ways to apply means to ends) is brilliant in its simplicity. But this model fails as a construct of national strategy. </div>
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<span>Defying Stereotypes: The Untapped Potential of Integrating Female Reconnaissance Operators Into Small State NATO SOF</span>
<span><span>SWJED</span></span>
<span>Mon, 10/29/2018 - 2:41pm</span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">This paper is based on a qualitative study of NORSOF. In the study, twelve high ranking officers in NORSOF and the Norwegian military were interviewed according to an interview template, thereby ensuring consistency in the research. The interviewees participating in this research generated original primary source data, enabling unique insight to the subject. The sample group consists of some of the most experienced people in Scandinavia with regard to SR, in addition to the central leadership in NORSOF. There are no existing publications with such a comprehensive sample group looking into this subject, thus the qualitative data that will be presented in this paper provides a notable insight.</div>
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<span>SOF Futures: Pathways Through the Transition</span>
<span><span>SWJED</span></span>
<span>Mon, 09/17/2018 - 12:32am</span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Special operations forces (SOF) will once again find itself out ahead of others, operating in ambiguity and uncertainty as the world’s players compete to establish new rules and new structures. One of the key challenges for SOF is that, rather than just being tactical, this time the ambiguity and uncertainty is strategic. If SOF is to continue to be effective during this time of transition, then they must rely on their collective ability to perceive weak signals and adapt more rapidly than our competitors.</div>
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<span>Expanding the Menu: The Case for CYBERSOC</span>
<span><span>SWJED</span></span>
<span>Fri, 01/05/2018 - 10:37am</span>
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The United States military should develop cyber special operations capabilities to expand the menu of policy options for addressing threats to U.S. interests and national security.</p>
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<span>The US Continues to “Trump” The UK on Special Forces Transparency</span>
<span><span>SWJED</span></span>
<span>Fri, 02/17/2017 - 4:05pm</span>
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There were a number of serious problems with the Navy SEAL raid on the 29<sup>th</sup> of January in Yemen, but at least we know it happened.</p>
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<span>SOF, COIN, and the Question of Host Nation Viability: An Interview with Dick Couch</span>
<span><span>Peter J. Munson</span></span>
<span>Mon, 07/01/2013 - 3:30am</span>
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As Iraq appears to unravel, it is only right to continue the debate about counterinsurgency, the appropriate application of landpower, and the expanding role of Special Operations in the US military.</p>
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